Quote

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Joseph Joubert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Deprived
Excess
Delight
Excesses
Delights

More quotes by Joseph Joubert

Image
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Politeness smooths wrinkles.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
Joseph Joubert
Image
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
Joseph Joubert
Image
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
Joseph Joubert
Image
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
Joseph Joubert
Image
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
Joseph Joubert
Image
There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
Joseph Joubert
Image
You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
Joseph Joubert
Image
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
Joseph Joubert
Image
A temperate style is alone classical.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
Joseph Joubert
Image
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
Joseph Joubert